Russia

Stewart Lone looks beyond the idea of the impassive, self-sacrificing citizen to discover how ordinary Japanese people really reacted to the war with Russia in 1904-05.

A rebellion erupted on the Russian battleship Potemkin on 14 June 1905.

Beryl Williams marks the centenary of the revolutionary year 1905, and discusses the impact of the massacre outside the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, and the complex events throughout Russia that preceded and followed Bloody Sunday.

A mutual defence treaty between Communist states was signed on 14 May 1955.

Simon Henderson places a key figure into the context of modern Russian history.

The Russian ruler died of pneumonia on March 2nd, 1855.

This month marks the 100th anniversary of St Petersburg’s Bloody Sunday. The Manchester Guardian was there, as Charlotte Alston describes.

About 200 people died and 800 were wounded during the march led by Father George Gapon on 22 January 1905.

The fatalist view of the Light Brigade’s charge towards the Russian guns at Balaclava is being challenged. They had their reasons why.

George Watson considers how news of a political and moral bombshell was received, particularly by intellectuals on both the Left and the Right.